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Penalsordo

Country:
Spain
State:
Comunidad Autonoma de Extremadura
City:
Penalsordo
Type of Location:
Multiple
About Location

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Places to Visit
How to Reach

By Road

  EX-323 Head of the Ox - Limit Province of Ciudad Real.
In this way is going to Cabeza del Buey, Castuera, Villanueva de la Serena, Don Benito, Merida and Badajoz to the west, and Chapel, Chillon, Almaden, Puertollano and Ciudad Real to the east. The journey through the town is composed Street and Avenue Road Juan Carlos I.
 
  BA-4143 Penalsordo - Limit provincial Cordoba.
In this way is going to Belalcazar, the old train station and the province of Cordoba in the limit by linking it with the CO-9403. If the proposed Development for plotting Extremadura Highway A-43, Extremadura - Valencia, spends the day will be on this road where you will enter this highway, and which will pass through southern Penalsordo. The journey through the town is called Avenida de la Paz.

By Bus

Barcelona (16:30 LMXJVSD)
Head of the Ox (9:15 and 14:35 LMXJVSD LMXJVS)
Castellón (16:30 LMXJVSD)
Ciudad Real (6:05 and 16:30 LMXJVS LMXJVSD)
Madrid (6:05 and 16:30 LMXJVS LMXJVSD)

Key places to visit
Ermita del Santo Cristo., Old church, St. Bridget Parish, Farmhouses, Santa Ana Campus, Museum of the "Octave of Corpus"

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Places to Visit

Ermita del Santo Cristo.

  The Chapel of the Holy Christ of Humility occupies the end of the street its name, being in the midst of a unique gazebo. It is difficult to date their origins. It seems that matches the above construction (XVI-XVII centuries).
  The main façade brick façade, on the whitewashed. Also use this material if it retains the belfry bells. The walls are heavy, with small rectangular or circular openings. Cover is eaten and smooth barrel and simple arches of half point.

Old church

The location of the generating area corresponds to higher ground. It contains the original parish church of Santa Brigida, masonry and brick without plaster-covered wood, originating in the sixteenth century, in which stands the belfry ostentatious staggered according to the model that is repeated in other parts of the territory.

St. Bridget Parish

In place of the original parish of St. Bridget, who was in a state problem in the top of the population, growth in the opposite direction in 1964 was erected in the vicinity of the Town Hall, built in the village, a new temple of modernist architecture with strange tower in front, financed by wealthy families in the new environment localidad.El temple is a square of great prominence.

Farmhouses

The present embodiments of traditional houses built in stone mountain type in older tissue, and other self-cast model of the plain areas in the later. Among these houses also abound noblemen of great size that reveal the past of the population ancestry. The whole urban fabric offers along with plasticity of the buildings, swerving on the street widening and other picturesque places of the accused. Among the most significant, worth remembering the House-Palace of the Duke of Osuna, the House of Commendation, the House of the Inquisition, the Granary, Charity Hospital, and others in Balmes street.

Santa Ana Campus

The Campus Santa Ana is a kind of peri-urban park, located on the outskirts of the town, on the road to Belalcazar .It is fenced, with 2 hits. The main vehicles and people, and a pedestrian only secondary.

Museum of the "Octave of Corpus"

An austere and beautiful eighteenth century building, the old granary of Penalsordo, served from May 99 to house an interesting museum of the Octave of Corpus Christi. This two-story building, remodeled several times, has been used in the past forty years as a nursery school and adults, as well as post office, it remains, and most recently, until the summer of 1998, part of it has Public Library served as the home of Culture, occupying another space for exhibitions and meetings of land and livestock auctions.

Right Time to Visit

July - October

Temperature

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